Doist vs Pendo

Doist (Empowering people with simple yet powerful tools ✨) and Pendo both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Doist (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over Pendo (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 33). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Doist is clearly ahead of Pendo. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Doist is clearly ahead of Pendo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Pendo is ahead of Doist. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Doist is ahead of Pendo. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Doist is ahead of Pendo.

Doist carries 5,576 GitHub stars across 170 public repos, with 45 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Pendo shows 267 stars across 134 public repos, 18 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 20.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Doist is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Pendo looks better where community is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.